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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:30:32 +0300
From:      Johannes Meixner <johannes@perceivon.net>
To:        Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recent security patch cause reboot loop on 11.1 RELEASE
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If you put those modules into rc.conf's kld_list, will it reboot as well?

According to the manpage, rc.conf is the faster way to load modules not
essential to booting.

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, 3:15 pm Denis Polygalov, <dpolyg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems like I did not cc my reply to the mailing list.
> Doing it now because I found a hint which may
> lead to the cause of the reboot loop.
>
> Removing:
>
> linux_load="YES"
> linprocfs_load="YES"
> linsysfs_load="YES"
>
> prevent the reboot loop in multi-user mode but
> leave me without Linux emulation...
>
> Regards,
> Denis.
>
> > Hi Gordon,
> >
> > this is real hardware. I found the reason (see below).
> > Setting hw.lazy_fpu_switch=1 in  /boot/loader.conf makes no difference.
> > No panic messages.
> > I can tell you when it happen. Here is the boot messages:
> > ... skipped ...
> > Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> > nvme cam probe device init
> > ugen2.1: <Intel EHCI root HUB> at usbus2
> > ugen1.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus1
> > ugen0.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus0
> > uhub0: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
> > uhub1: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
> > uhub2: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
> > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> > uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> > uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
> >
> > <---- here screen (local monitor) goes black and machine restarted.
> >
> > ada0 at ata2 bus 0 scbus8 target 0 lun 0
> > ada0: <WDC WD2000FYYZ-01UL1B1 01.01K02> ATA8-ACS SATA 3.x device
> > ada0: Serial Number WD-WMC1P0D1KEHJ
> > ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
> > ada0: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors)
> > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
> > da0: <HP RAID 5 OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI device
> > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> > da0: Command Queueing enabled
> > da0: 858293MB (1757784604 512 byte sectors)
> > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a [rw]...
> >
> > I noticed that I can boot the *patched* kernel in single user mode.
> > Removing these 3 lines from the /boot/loader.conf fixed rebooting loop
> problem:
> >
> > linux_load="YES"
> > linprocfs_load="YES"
> > linsysfs_load="YES"
> >
> > This machine is used as a test bench to test stuff
> > before deploying on a production server.
> > We need Linux emulation support on the production
> > server to run closed source software...
> > So... maybe this will help someone.
> >
> > Blaming evil penguins,
> > Denis
>
>
>
> On 21/06/2018 4:19 PM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> What I did is following:
> >>
> >> # uname -a
> >> FreeBSD my_host_name 11.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Tue
> >> May  8 05:21:56 UTC 2018
> >> root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> >>
> >> # freebsd-update fetch
> >> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> >> Fetching metadata signature for 11.1-RELEASE from
> update6.freebsd.org... done.
> >> Fetching metadata index... done.
> >> Inspecting system... done.
> >> Preparing to download files... done.
> >>
> >> The following files will be updated as part of updating to
> 11.1-RELEASE-p11:
> >> /boot/kernel/kernel
> >>
> >> Installing this update cause endless reboot loop.
> >>
> >> # cat /boot/loader.conf
> >> kern.maxfiles="32768"
> >> zfs_load="YES"
> >> linux_load="YES"
> >> linprocfs_load="YES"
> >> linsysfs_load="YES"
> >>
> >> # dmesg |grep CPU
> >> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz (3400.19-MHz K8-class CPU)
> >> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
> >> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> >> SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
> >> SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
> >> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> >> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> >> cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> >> cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> >> acpi_perf0: <ACPI CPU Frequency Control> on cpu0
> >> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> >> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> >> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> >>
> >> The machine is HP ProLiant ML350
> >
> > Sorry to hear you are having a problem.
> >
> > Just to confirm, this is running on hardware and not on a Xen
> > hypervisor, correct?
> >
> > Assuming it's running directly on the hardware, can you see if setting:
> > hw.lazy_fpu_switch=1
> > in /boot/loader.conf makes any difference?
> >
> > Is there any panic message?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gordon
> >
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